This theory originated largely from the accounts of the Greek historian Herodotus, who observed that Armenians were armed in Phrygian fashion when serving in the Persian army. Linguists further ...

Herodotus, the Greek historian who wrote in the 5th century B.C., 500 years before Christ, is the earliest known chronicler and historian of the Egyptian Pyramid Age. By his accounts, the labor ...

Early explorers were on guard against the strange and horrifying humanoids that they thought lived just beyond the known ...

The ancient Greek historian Herodotus made the first indication of this practice when he stated that Scythians used the skin ...

On the coast a fleet of some 1,200 ships amassed, while on land over 100,000 (or 1.7 million according to Herodotus' exaggerated account) soldiers made camp at Sardis in Turkey, awaiting their orders.

The folk tales collected and rewritten by the Brothers Grimm may ‘seem to come from nowhere and to belong to everyone’, Colin Burrow wrote recently in the LRB, but ‘this is an illusion’. In the... Two ...